Universal Detection Technology, a provider of counter-terrorism consulting and training services and developer of early warning technology against bioterror agents, has commented on a July 30 anthrax scare at a downtown Los Angeles metro station.Read More »

Six years after the government first explored the idea of using U.S. postal workers to dispense critical medicines in the wake of terrorist attack and eight months after the Obama administration ordered a plan developed to do so, six unnamed cities have bRead More »

The Washington Demilitarization Company LLC has agreed to pay the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality civil penalties and ensure compliance with its hazardous waste treatment facility permit for the Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility.Read More »

Officials with the United States Army announced last week that a cache of chemical weapons dumped five miles south of Pearl Harbor after World War II will not be removed because trying to move them may pose a threat to people and the environment.Read More »

The San Diego based developers of the anthrax vaccine Pfenex have been awarded funding by the federal Biomedical Advanced Research Development Authority at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that could reach $18.8 million.Read More »

A 13-member committee of the U.S. National Research Committee recently issued a 187-page report that concluded that the use of DNA-based security scanning system to detect bioweapons is still a technology of the future.Read More »

Mothers who breast feed and pregnant women are now advised to be vaccinated for anthrax in the case of a terrorist attack that uses the disease in its aerosolized form, according to updated guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Read More »

Homeland security officials in India this week said they are equipped and ready to face chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats posed by terrorist groups during the October Commonwealth Games.Read More »